Barriers of Communication

Introduction
In this part of the assignment I will give three examples of communication barriers and explain how they stop people from communicating with each other.
Language
One type of communication barrier could be the languages that the two people speak. They could be different nationalities and not speak the same language for example if you saw someone from another country and you asked them directions they might not understand you because they might only speak a small amount of English or none at all. Other barriers of communication are sign language, abbreviated text and slang.
Disabilities
This communication barrier would affect people from communicating with each other because for example someone who is deaf wouldn’t be able to socialize with as much people as others would because not everyone knows sign language and wouldn’t be able to communicate with him. Other disabilities that could affect communication could be if someone was blind because when people usually speak the other person is also lip reading them which is why some conversations over the phone are hard to understand. Blind people will still be able to hear you but you might have to repeat yourself a few times because he could pick some words up wrong.
Social Context
Non-verbal conversations could be hard to understand if you cannot read the font or because of the colours used in it for example yellow text on a white background will be very hard to read because they are both bright colours. If you want the text to really stand out then it would be better to have a dark font and bright background for example: Black text on a white background or a bright font colour and a dark background like white text and a black background. If you don’t have a clear, neat font then it could also be hard to read so an easy readable document might have a white background, black text colour and the font could be Arial.